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Gordon Devonshire 1901 - 1978

Gordon Devonshire of Maple Shade, Burlington County, NJ was born on October 3, 1901, and died at age 76 years old in January 1978.
Gordon Devonshire
Maple Shade, Burlington County, NJ 08052
October 3, 1901
January 1978
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    1901

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    October 3, 1901
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    1978

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    January 1978
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    Gordon Devonshire lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1901, in the year that Gordon Devonshire was born, John Pierpont "J. P." Morgan created U.S. Steel. J.P. Morgan was an American banker and financier who dominated U.S. business at this time. He had previously overseen the creation of General Electric, as well as International Harvester and AT&T. He has been referred to as America's greatest banker. U.S. Steel was the first billion dollar company in the world, worth $1.4 billion in 1901.
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In 1911, Gordon was only 10 years old when the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
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